President Barack Obama denounced the Islamic State group Sunday after they released a video of a masked militant standing over a severed head it claimed was Peter Kassig, a former U.S. soldier-turned-aid worker who was taken hostage while delivering relief supplies to Syrians caught in that country's brutal civil war. Hours later, the White House confirmed Kassig's death after a review of the video, which also showed the mass beheadings of a dozen Syrian soldiers. The 26-year-old Kassig, a former Army Ranger who returned to the Middle East to help wounded and displaced Syrians, "was taken from us in...
- 11/16/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
A former motorcycling buddy of Princes William and Harry has been revealed as the latest Isil hostage, after a propaganda video of him speaking was released on Thursday, Sept. 18. Photojournalist John Cantlie is shown on the latest Islamic State video claiming that the British government has "abandoned" him and pleading for negotiations to be opened so he can avoid death. The video, which shows Cantlie sitting behind a desk and reading an autocue in an anonymous room presumably in Syria, has a professional feel to it and [...]...
- 9/19/2014
- Us Weekly
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